Salenegg Castle

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Salenegg Castle, view from the west

The Salenegg Castle is a castle-like manor in the north of Maienfeld in the Swiss canton of Grisons .

history

South side

A previous building was built around the year 950; The client was the prior of the Pfäfers monastery . The house was named «Prestenegg» after the remains that the monks of the monastery were supposed to cure in the house on the sunny side of the valley.

In 1330 the building came into the possession of the barons of Vaz. After they died out in 1399, it came to the Werdenbergs , then the Toggenburgs . In the second half of the 15th century, Prestenegg was owned by the Beeli von Belfort family. In 1594, after several changes of ownership, it was bought by Vespasian von Salis and his wife Anna von Schauenstein, who renovated and expanded it in 1604 and renamed it Salenegg. A Sal willow , the coat of arms of the von Salis family, was planted near the well in the courtyard .

Vespasian's daughter Violanda got the seat by marrying knight Anton von Molina, who in 1637 during the Bündner turmoil as part of the Austrians became one of the conspirators against Duke Henri II. De Rohan . He extended the building to the south and built the garden room on the ground floor, the ceiling of which has a painting with the coats of arms of forty Graubünden families and the three leagues .

Knight Molina's daughters sold Salenegg in 1654 for 14,000 guilders and six loads of wine to Hans Luzi Gugelberg von Moos , governor of the Valtellina and mayor of Maienfeld. He furnished the large room with paneling and procured the staggering tree made from a mighty oak from Flums , which was drawn to Maienfeld with fifty oxen. Around this time, Hortensia Gugelberg von Moos was living on Salenegg.

Hans Luzi's son Ulysses had the annex with the staircase built around 1713; his sons Heinrich, Lorenz and Ulysses built the tower in 1756. The largest renovation took place between 1782 and 1784, when Ulysses Gugelberg put the parts from different construction stages together to form the uniform system as it is today. The castle is still owned by the Gugelberg von Moos family. 27 of the 79 rooms are inhabited.

winery

Location in the vineyards
View from the Fläscherstrasse

Wine has been grown on Salenegg since 1068; This makes the Salenegg winery the oldest still existing winery in Europe. This is also where viticulture began in the Bündner Herrschaft . In addition to several wines and brandies, several types of vinegar are also produced in Salenegg.

Salenegg is located on the North Grisons Wine Trail .

pasture

In 1890, the willow planted at the beginning of the 17th century had reached an extraordinary size. In September 1926, the Bündner monthly newspaper wrote: "Its trunk measures 5.40 m in circumference and its long branches hung down over the whole of the large well, and its strong roots lifted the heavy stone slabs of the well floor." When they tried to cut the tree, noticed it was found in 1910 that a young root in the treetop had drilled its way through the bark into the rotten interior of the trunk. The new trunk grew inside the old shell and in 1926 had reached a circumference of one meter. This extraordinary rejuvenation of the old willow inspired the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who often stayed in the area, to write the poem “Die Weide von Salenegg” in August 1926 , which he wrote in the guest book of Salenegg Castle.

literature

  • Erwin Poeschel : Art monuments of the canton of Graubünden . Volume 2. Birkhäuser, Basel 1937.
  • Anton von Castelmur: The castles and palaces of the Canton of Graubünden . Volume I. Birkhäuser-Verlag, Basel 1940, ( The castles and palaces of Switzerland 15).
  • Ludmila Seifert, Leza Dosch: Art guide through Graubünden: Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2008

Web links

Commons : Schloss Salenegg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidiland holiday region
  2. ↑ Bündner monthly newspaper September 1926
  3. ↑ http://gedichte.xbib.de/Rilke_gedicht_Die+Weide+von+Salenegg.htm

Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '38.5 "  N , 9 ° 31' 43.2"  E ; CH1903:  758 910  /  208743